IMMIGRATION TO GREECE (OCTOBER 2016)

Research Institute for European and American StudiesNewsletter on Immigration to Greece

Editor: Ioannis Kolovos

13% of births in Greece came from foreign mothersAccording to 2015 data 13% of births in Greece came from foreign mothers (11,943 births out of a total of 91,847). Moreover, the Greek population continues to decline and age.

Greeks’ do not believe that refugees will integrateA “Public Issue” opinion poll showed that the majority of Greeks (48%) still perceive refugees as a threat to the country’s security and the absolute majority (73%) believe that refugees will not integrate in Greek society.

The situation at hot-spots is heating up!Tensions have boiled over in overcrowded migrant camps on the Aegean islands of Chios and Lesvos resulting in riots and in the torching of European Asylum Support Offices (EASO).

2,500 Pakistani illegal immigrants are unaccounted for!2,500 Pakistanis who had reached Greece illegally via Turkey and had applied for asylum so as to stall the repatriation process, are unaccounted for in the hotspots of Kos, Lesvos and Samos.